Fear Quotes
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.Cyril Connolly
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.Lord Chesterfield
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.Marilyn Ferguson
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.Kahlil Gibran
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.Dorothy Thompson
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.Cyril Connolly
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.Luella F. Phean
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.Bertrand Russell
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1
Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.Cyril Connolly
Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.Joe Moore
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.Edward Weeks
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.William Hazlitt
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.Harper Lee
Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours.Swedish Prove
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.Benjamin Disraeli
How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?Robert Mallet
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.Bonaro Overstreet
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.George Sewell
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.Robert Oppenheime
Nothing is to be feared but fear.Francis Bacon
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.Babe Ruth
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.C. S. Lewis
He who fears something gives it power over him.Moorish Prove
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964
Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.Ross Hersey
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.Berthold Auerbach
Do not fear mistakes, there are none.Miles Davis
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.Marilyn Ferguson
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.Abraham Lincoln
